8th Grade ELA
Students are required to read one required book and one book of choice. There will be an assignment
on these books that will be done in class at the start of the new school year.
Required Book: Al Capone Does My Shirts, by Gennifer Choldenko
Suggested Reading List for Choice Book
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Eighth Grade Bites: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod #1 by Heather Brewer
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Book of the Lion by Michael Cadnum
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
The Roar by Emma Clayton
Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Code Orange by Caroline B. Cooney
Timeline by Michael Crichton
Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings
The Watson’s Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
Maze Runner by James Dashner
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer
Ruins of Gorlan: Ranger's Apprentice #1 by John Flanagan
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True Story about Brain Science by John Fleischman
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Double Identity by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Dark Water Rising by Marian Hale
8th Grade ELA
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Witness by Karen Hesse
Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs
Go Big or Go Home by Will Hobbs
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Swindle by Gordon Korman
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Savvy by Ingrid Law
To Be A Slave by Julius Lester
Black Duck by Janet Lisle
White Fang by Jack London
Silent Boy by Lois Lowry
Heat by Mike Lupica
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
Fablehaven: Fablehaven #1 by Brandon Mull
Time of the Witches by Anna Myers
Rascal by Sterling North
Eldest by Christopher Paolini
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
Angel Experiment: Maximum Ride #1 by James Patterson
8th Grade ELA
East by Edith Pattou
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Soldier’s Heart by Gary Paulsen
Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen
The Challenge: Steel Trapp #1 by Ridely Pearson
The River Between Us by Richard Peck
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
Dog in the Wood by Monika Schroder
Grimm Legacy by Polly Schulman
The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flammel #1 by Michael Scott
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Endymion Spring by Matthew Skeleton
Elephant Run by Roland Smith
Notes from the Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
8th Grade ELA
Runaway by Wendelin Van Draanan
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Empty by Suzanne Weyn
Night by Elie Wiesel